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California
AB 302 (2026), addictive feeds in school communications and extracurricular participation
Cal. Educ. Code §§ 49058, 51103
An education rule binding government bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- This act binds each local educational agency, meaning a school district, county office of education or charter school, and places no duty on an online service or an app developer (sections 49058(b)(2) and 51103(b)(2)).
- Commencing with the 2027-28 school year, do not exclude a pupil from participating in any extracurricular activity, including sports and clubs, due to the pupil not having or using addictive feeds (section 49058(a)(1)).
- Commencing with the 2027-28 school year, do not use addictive feeds as the only means of contacting pupils or pupils' parents or guardians (section 51103(a)(1)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Covered services
None directly: the duties run to local educational agencies (school districts, county offices of education and charter schools) and place no duty on an online service.
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The sections bar a local educational agency from excluding a pupil from an extracurricular activity, or contacting pupils and parents only through addictive feeds, and require no log, record or retention period.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Prohibits a local educational agency, meaning a school district, county office of education or charter school, from excluding a pupil from any extracurricular activity, including sports and clubs, because the pupil does not have or use addictive feeds, and from using addictive feeds as the only means of contacting pupils or pupils' parents or guardians, in each case commencing with the 2027-28 school year.
An addictive feed is an internet website, online service or application, or a portion of one, in which multiple pieces of user-generated media are recommended, selected or prioritized for display to a user based in whole or in part on information associated with the user or the user's device, subject to seven stated exceptions.
The extracurricular duty is in Education Code section 49058 and the contact duty is in section 51103, both added by Chapter 181, Statutes of 2026 (AB 302), which the Governor approved on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves K-12 schools.
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